Bible Out of Schools, Koran In
Posted on December 15, 2008 - Filed Under Education, religion | 3 Comments
Cross-posted by Maggie at Maggie’s Notebook
A detail of the “Old Testament” Gutenberg Bibles is photographed at the Morgan Library and Museum Monday, May 19, 2008 in New York. For the first time in more than a decade, the Morgan Library and Museum will exhibit all three of its Gutenberg Bibles, the largest number of copies [...]
Read More..>>ACLU Given ‘Veto Power’ Over Free-Speech Rights
Posted on July 7, 2008 - Filed Under 1st Amendment, Activist Judges, Church And State, News, Uncategorized | 4 Comments
By Jeff Johnson:
Christian groups are appealing a federal judge’s ruling that bars the Gideons from distributing Bibles to students of the South Iron Missouri School District.
The South Iron School District allows off-campus organizations to distribute literature to students before and after school, and during other non-instructional times such as lunch breaks. But the American Civil [...]
ACLU Halts Free Speech of Gideons
Posted on June 28, 2008 - Filed Under 1st Amendment, ACLU, Church And State, Education, Multiculturalism/PC, News | 6 Comments
I challenge some Hare Krishnas to give out free Bhagavad Gitas or Muslims to give out free Quarans at our schools. As long as the children are not forced to take one under some liberal social awareness plan, I’ll bet that no uproar will happen. However, having the Gideons pass out free New [...]
Read More..>>ACLU Stops Bible Distribution in After School/Lunch Break Periods
Posted on January 18, 2008 - Filed Under 1st Amendment, ACLU, Activist Judges, Church And State, News | Comments Off
In their continued efforts to destroy religion in America, the ACLU has won another loathsome victory against the free expression of religion. The AP reports that a rural school district near St. louis, MO can no longer allow representatives of Gideons International to give away Bibles to fifth-graders during after school periods or during their [...]
Read More..>>ADF to Represent Gideons
Posted on December 4, 2007 - Filed Under 1st Amendment, ACLU, Church And State, News | Comments Off
Via ADF:
Attorneys with the Alliance Defense Fund have offered free legal representation to a North Carolina school district that, after being threatened by the ACLU, has barred Gideons International members from distributing Bibles on elementary school campuses. Hartnett County School District officials recently banned the practice, a long-standing tradition, after the ACLU claimed that [...]
ACLU Wants Bible Distribution To End
Posted on November 29, 2007 - Filed Under 1st Amendment, ACLU | Comments Off
Jay asked if I would write a little something about a plan in two North Carolina school districts to end a practice of allowing the people at Gideons International to distribute their bibles at the schools because of pressure from everyone’s favorite Communist front organization, the ACLU. I’m actually a bit reluctant about this because [...]
Read More..>>ACLU Halts Bible Donations in North Carolina Elementary Schools
Posted on November 20, 2007 - Filed Under 1st Amendment, ACLU, Church And State, News | 11 Comments
Gideons Keep Out of North Carolina’s Elementary Schools!
A North Carolina school district is putting an end to the donations of Bibles to elementary school kids.
The Cumberland County school system says state law limits the practice strictly to high schools and has issued instructions banning it at 54 elementary schools in the metro Fayetteville area.
The move [...]
All Religions Welcome — but not Christianity
Posted on April 7, 2007 - Filed Under ACLU | 1 Comment
We read:
“After a single complaint by a single secular humanist, the Bible will be purged from thousands of hotel rooms in Belgium, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Italy, Lithuania, The Netherlands and Norway. The Bible will no longer be available at more than 130 Scandic hotels in ten countries. Scandic has already begun removing [...]
Trespassing charges dropped against FL Gideons, police department concocts new charges
Posted on April 2, 2007 - Filed Under 1st Amendment, Church And State, News | 5 Comments
I guess they’ve just GOT to get those Gideons. Now they can’t be within 500 feet of a school? This is just silly.
WND: Gideons facing charges for being on public land
Two Florida men who wanted to give Bibles to children in their community are being charged under a state law that bans anyone [...]
Gideons handing out Bibles on public sidewalk arrested after school officials complain
Posted on February 8, 2007 - Filed Under 1st Amendment, ACLU, Church And State, News | 11 Comments
© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com
Two men who are members of Gideons International, the Christian organization that is famous for, among other ministries, placing Bibles in motels and giving them to children, have been arrested after trying to hand out Bibles on a public sidewalk in Florida, according to a law firm.
Officials with the Alliance Defense Fund have [...]
Pro-Palestian Propaganda Speakers Defended By ACLU For Public High School
Posted on December 12, 2006 - Filed Under Uncategorized | 4 Comments
If the Gideons leave a box of tiny New Testaments in a box outside a school cafeteria for students to voluntarily take or leave, the ACLU will be up and arms before you can say “proselytize”. However, When a Palestian propaganda group packaged to indoctrinate hatred for Israel and the U.S. is cancelled because [...]
Read More..>>ACLU Goes After Gideons
Posted on November 29, 2006 - Filed Under 1st Amendment, ACLU, Church And State, News | 20 Comments
Hat tip:Iowa Voice via Baxter Bulletin
When Pinkston Middle School student Tamsan Mora came home with a pocket-sized Gideon Bible — King James Version, New Testament only — in her coat, her mother was surprised and a little worried. The school district says they handled the Bibles appropriately, but the American Civil Liberties Union of Arkansas [...]
ACLU: Anti-Christian Liberals Union
Posted on October 25, 2006 - Filed Under 1st Amendment, ACLU, Christmas, Church And State, News | 7 Comments
Liberals always act shocked and astonished that conservatives believe that an organization claiming to be the guardian of religious liberty is actually America’s number one religious censor. They will spout off token cases where the ACLU veered from its normal path of hostility toward Christian religious expression to defend free speech. They have [...]
Read More..>>ACLU Wants Gideons Out Of Elementary School
Posted on August 22, 2006 - Filed Under 1st Amendment, ACLU, Church And State, News | 1 Comment
Via WDC Media
The ACLU is trying to restrict the Gideons from handing out Bibles to fifth-graders at an elementary school in Missouri.
For years the superintendent of the South Iron R-1 School District in Annapolis, Missouri, has permitted various groups to present information to students at district schools. The open access policy in the district [...]
9th Circuit Court Says Teaching Children To Be Muslims OK
Posted on November 18, 2005 - Filed Under ACLU, Activist Judges, News | 17 Comments
Hat tip: My Pet Jawa
SAN FRANCISCO – Christian students and parents cannot sue a school district where some seventh-graders pretended to be Muslims for three weeks during a course in world history, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the role-playing game was not a religious exercise that violated [...]
